Friday, November 21, 2008
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
"A Snickers bar last longer than a floppy."
"A Snickers bar last longer than a floppy." Today's profound statement from class. It is both humorous and true; a snickers bar last 7 years and a floppy only 3. A simple fact that points out a larger issue: backing up data and storage medium life. In reality none of the storage mediums available to consumers is permanent: floppy disks have a short life, hard drives and flash drives wear out with use, and CDs & DVDs deteriorate as the inks used in them age. Disk inks do have long lives - depending upon the quality of the disks used, when burned properly they have been reported to last between 20 and over 100 years. Lower quality media and burning, however, can result in much shorter data life. The point of all this? Proper backup techniques - both selection of media and its creation - is essential to ensuring data safety.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Favorites page process display
Today's project was modifying a copy of our "Favorite Sites" page, allowing a viewer to see the page as first created, with color and images, and with JavaScript. This lets the user see the process followed in creating the page, showing a bit of how the programmer thought as he designed it. An index.html file was also created, including a short reflection on each page.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Reflections on HTML
The first 4 weeks of class we have spent discussing basic html tags and their application in web page design. We slowly worked from text and paragraph alignment to adding color and images. A set of brief thoughts on each of these follow:
HTML #1:
A very basic page containing text, headings, horizontal rules, and links. This page truly is basic, though a starting point is required for every project.
HTML #2:
This page added a copyright notice to page #1. Finding the code for the copyright icon was easy, as almost every web page includes this somewhere, and there are html information sources everywhere on the internet. This particular step had an entire class time dedicated to it; I do not know the reason for this as the process of finding and adding the code took at most five minutes, leaving another 70 minutes to find something do do with myself.
HTML #3:
This page adds color to our site, turning the page into something you can actually read without cringing. I did not initially create this page, as logically, colors should be chosen in conjunction with the images to be present on the page. Due to the requirements of the class, I had to backtrack; deleting the images from my page and re-saving it as a new .html file.
HTML #4:
This page gives the creator a great deal of individual choice, as the images added can be as personal or generic as one wants. Image tags where added below the links to allow the display of images. I chose images that I edited myself and have a personal investment in. I also added a table to better structure the placement of the images and text within the page.
Conclusion:
This process has taken an extremely long time to create such a basic page. Personally, I feel this page should have taken one to two classes to complete. If this where an actual page, not just an example of basic tags, more time would be warranted for choosing format, color, and content. For the purposes of this exercise, however, I believe that fluency in internet searches and editing software dictates that it should be completed quickly and efficiently.
HTML #1:
A very basic page containing text, headings, horizontal rules, and links. This page truly is basic, though a starting point is required for every project.
HTML #2:
This page added a copyright notice to page #1. Finding the code for the copyright icon was easy, as almost every web page includes this somewhere, and there are html information sources everywhere on the internet. This particular step had an entire class time dedicated to it; I do not know the reason for this as the process of finding and adding the code took at most five minutes, leaving another 70 minutes to find something do do with myself.
HTML #3:
This page adds color to our site, turning the page into something you can actually read without cringing. I did not initially create this page, as logically, colors should be chosen in conjunction with the images to be present on the page. Due to the requirements of the class, I had to backtrack; deleting the images from my page and re-saving it as a new .html file.
HTML #4:
This page gives the creator a great deal of individual choice, as the images added can be as personal or generic as one wants. Image tags where added below the links to allow the display of images. I chose images that I edited myself and have a personal investment in. I also added a table to better structure the placement of the images and text within the page.
Conclusion:
This process has taken an extremely long time to create such a basic page. Personally, I feel this page should have taken one to two classes to complete. If this where an actual page, not just an example of basic tags, more time would be warranted for choosing format, color, and content. For the purposes of this exercise, however, I believe that fluency in internet searches and editing software dictates that it should be completed quickly and efficiently.
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